African Billionaire Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava Technologies has raised $90 million to bolster its balance sheet and fuel growth. Cassava has closed a $90 million equity investment round, with ...

With its first African data center operational for a year, among other infrastructure projects such as the Equiano subsea cable, Google confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s now taking a direct equity ...

Daniel Danino is the CEO and founder of Volta Metals, an international group focused on energy, industry and trading in EMEA. Africa is a continent rich in natural resources, including fertile soil ...

Beer and spirits have a long history of turning crops into currency for poor farmers. America’s own frontier farmers distilled corn into whiskey as insurance against hard times. Now a brewing company ...

Cassava Technologies may invest as much as $720 million in Africa’s first artificial intelligence factory that will be built by Nvidia Corp. The pan-African technology firm founded by Zimbabwean ...

Cassava Technologies ( ), a global technology leader of African heritage, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the South African AI Association (SAAIA), ...

One wonders how the anti-GMO movement could oppose something like this. But given its hostility to Golden Rice, which has been genetically modified to contain a vitamin A precursor to prevent ...

Nairobi, Kenya (18 October, 2007)—A meeting of Africa’s leading cassava breeders zeroed in on actions needed to stop the rapid spread of cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). The resurgent crop disease ...

Cassava witches’ broom disease is quickly spreading across Northeastern South America, threatening a critical food staple for millions of people in Brazil and the continent Around the same time, ...

Cassava is a root vegetable that contains vitamin C and copper. It may also contain harmful compounds if consumed raw. Cassava is a root vegetable widely consumed in many countries around the globe.